Malaysia Airlines: Clearest images yet of possible wreckage?

A New Zealand team searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has found
the best defined images of potential debris so far, as Chinese spotters also
see three white, orange and red items that could match the aircraft's
colours

An object floats in the southern Indian Ocean in this picture taken from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370Photo: Jason Reed/ Getty

Several small objects spotted by planes on Friday were picked up by Australian and Chinese ships and were found to be unrelated to the plane.

Eight aircraft and four ships conducted searches across 97,000 square miles on Saturday, with another five ships due to join the search on Sunday.

Air Vice-Marshal Kevin Short, the head of New Zealand's military, said authorities expected parts of the plane to be floating, including fuel tanks from wings, composite materials and plastics.

Authorities have abandoned a search area in which they had scoured for days for objects spotted by five satellites and instead moved on Friday to an entirely new zone about 700 miles to the north. The new zone, spanning about 123,000 square miles, is in calmer waters and closer to shore, allowing aircraft to spend more time flying overhead.